Background

On November 10, 2011 the Nixon Library opened additional materials from the Nixon Presidential Materials. Below are scans of twenty documents that represent the variety of subjects and wealth of historical information included in this new release.

The documents are from file segments for the White House Special Files, Staff Member & Office Files; White House Central Files, Staff Member & Office Files; and the National Security Council Files series.

Please visit the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California to research all of the documents.

The following abbreviations are used below to identify original collections of the scanned documents:

HAK: Henry A. Kissinger

NSC: National Security Council

SMOF: Staff Member & Office Files

WHCF: White House Central Files

WHSF: White House Special Files

Mandatory and Systematic Review Documents

The Library has posted fifteen documents from the nearly 3,000 page of formerly classified national security materials released on November 10, 2011. Among them are the minutes of the Nixon administration’s first National Security Council meeting in January 1969, including an intelligence briefing by Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, and a special estimate from March 1969 on Chinese foreign policy likely written at the request of the White House. Also scanned are an intelligence briefing for the President prepared by Dr. Henry Kissinger in June 1970, a lengthy study of the role of the CIA in the Lam Son 719 intelligence failure in 1971, a special 1971 intelligence estimate on Chile and materials prepared by the George H. W. Bush administration to brief former President Nixon about U.S.-Soviet relations, the revolutions in Eastern Europe, and the Gulf War.

Kenneth Cole Documents

White House Central Files: Staff Member & Office Files

As deputy to John Ehrlichman and then as the Director of the White House’s Domestic Council, Kenneth Cole had a hand in many of the Nixon Administration’s key domestic initiatives. On November 10, 2011, the Library is releasing the remaining 45, 000 pages of his White House collection. Among the materials scanned to offer a sense of the wealth of the collection are documents illustrating Donald Rumsfeld’s views on revenue sharing, an administration debate over how to organize policy toward Native Americans, the response of the insurance industry to the Administration’s health care initiative and a document on the future of the School Lunch program.